The Ripple in Cheese Time Time of Purrlin is a gargantuan, socially progressive nation, ruled by Murdoc Niccals with an iron fist, and remarkable for its sprawling nuclear power plants, ritual sacrifices, and public floggings. The hard-nosed, cynical population of 20.35 billion Purrlinians are ruled with an iron fist by the dictatorship government, which ensures that no-one outside the party gets too rich. In their personal lives, however, citizens are relatively unoppressed; it remains to be seen whether this is because the government genuinely cares about its people, or if it hasn't gotten around to stamping out civil rights yet.

The large government prioritizes Defense, with Education, Healthcare, and Law & Order also on the agenda, while Spirituality receives no funds. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Melancholy Hill. The average income tax rate is 66.3%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The Purrlinian economy, worth a remarkable 1,237 trillion Purroes a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is a slick, highly efficient, quite specialized black market in Information Technology, Book Publishing, Tourism, and Woodchip Exports. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is 60,819 Purroes, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Murdoc Niccals's office has a newly installed Max-Man arcade game programmed by a 5th-grader, commuters are denied boarding for attempting to bring packed lunches onto trains, it's considered a civil right to be allowed to neglect and mistreat your own children, and the military has grudgingly released all top secret information in an effort for greater transparency. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Purrlin's national animal is the kitty, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Purrlin is ranked 130,691^st in the world and 125^th in The Glorious Nations of Iwaku for Lowest Crime Rates, with 62.66 law-abiding acts per hour.